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207954 Sgt. James William Blanchard Royal Air Force 106 Squadron from:Hull, Yorkshire, England (d.22th June 1944) Sgt James Blanchard was the flight engineer onLancaster LM570 (call sign ZN-Z) when it left RAF Metheringham at 23:15 on the evening of 21/22 June 1944. The mission was to carry out the bombing of a synthetic oil plant (Buer) at Gelesenkirchen, Germany. Whilst airborne, the aircraft was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed at Rossum (Gelderland) on the bank of the Waal, approx 12Km SW of Tiel. All the crew were killed. Seven of the crew are buried in the Uden War Cemetary between Eindhoven and Nijmegen. Sgt Scott is buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetary. The crew were: FO Bellingham, K G Captain (pilot)RAF Sqn Ldr A J Loughborough (pilot)RAF Sgt James William Blanchard (flight engineer)RAF Flt Sgt H Gavin (navigator) RAAF Flt Sgt L Toomey (air bomber)RAAF Sgt A Goodacre (wireless air gunner) RAF Sgt S J Malaband (mid upper gunner)RAF Sgt C E Scott (rear gunner)RCAF Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.